C. L. Hett of the Turbine Foundry / Ancholme Foundry, Brigg, Lincolnshire
1872 Company formed by Charles Louis Hett when he took over the Ancholme Foundry from William Hart
1876 Bid for a boiler at Ely[1]
1882 Supplied a centrifugal pump to East Butterwick Pumping Station near Gainsborough.[2]
1886 Produced a centrifugal pump and single cylinder vertical steam engine for circulating water on the Greek Government’s ship Eldorado. [3]
1891 Designed a turbine governor with very simple action[4]
1894 Hett's Pelton Wheel for driving a blowing engine at a mine
1895 C L Hett taken over by Gilbert Gilkes of Kendal (see Gilbert Gilkes and Co)
1896 Charles Hett retired from the business
1912 Hett-designed 'Trent' turbine installed at Cressbrook Mill, Derbyshire[5]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer 1876/11/17
- ↑ Fenland Pumping Engines by K. S. G. Hinde, Landmark Publishing Co., 2006 ISBN 1 84306 188 0
- ↑ The Engineer 1886/06/18
- ↑ The Engineer 1891/08/28
- ↑ International Stationary Steam Engine Society (ISSES) Bulletin Vol 30 No. 3 (2009) pp 30, 31
- Steam Engine Builders of Lincolnshire by Ronald H. Clark. Published 1955 by Goose and Son
- Ploughs, Chaff Cutters and Steam Engines. Edited by Ken Redmore – Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. Published 2007. ISBN 978 0 903582 308.